Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux [LWN.net]

Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux

Posted Aug 31, 2024 11:11 UTC (Sat) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240)
In reply to: Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux by airlied
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

No. Rust is getting turned on because drm_panic is written in Rust. I started working on this for enablement because of AGX, but we need it turned on ASAP because drm_panic is approved for Fedora Linux 42.

Nova is on literally nobody's radar right now because it doesn't exist beyond scaffold. There is no code that does anything yet, to the best of my knowledge, and there will not be any for a long while.

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Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux

Posted Aug 31, 2024 12:10 UTC (Sat) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link] (1 responses)

DRM panic in Fedora is not a Red Hat commitment to rust in RHEL. I think directly said not to confuse Fedora and Red Hat here.

Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux

Posted Aug 31, 2024 12:31 UTC (Sat) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240) [Link]

Based on the conversations I've had with the RHEL kernel team so far, the main blocker for RHEL is the lack of modversions support for Rust, which is being worked on. I do think it'll get enabled before Nova is in a useful state, because there are other little drivers in-tree where there are C and Rust versions and the Rust versions are better than the C versions.